World-recognized Diagnostics Method of Colorectal Cancer—FOB

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August 24, 2015Diagnostics

Fecal Occult Blood Rapid Test（FOB），a stool test, plays a vital role in the diagnosis of Gastrointestinal bleeding. When Gastrointestinal bleeding is little, it is hard to recognize the blood in stool by naked eyes and the damaged red blood cells can only be diagnosed by chemical or immune method. More important, the test of Gastrointestinal bleeding is regarded as a significant screening index of early diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer.

Colorectal Cancer is the tumor with high prevalence rate and the mortality ranks the second among Common Malignancies in recent years. The incidence of Colorectal Cancer have shown a obvious upward trends. So it is urgent to use FOB to diagnose it in early stage to reduce the mortality. Fecal Occult Blood Rapid Test is regarded as the world-recognized screening method to Colorectal Cancer. Because most pathological changes have the presence of bleeding, it can give a clear signal. However, a large number of people do not take this test seriously, which always causes the delay of treatment.

Generally, the main symptom of Colorectal Cancer is hematochezia and other symptoms are diabetes, stomach ache, weight loss and Anemia. What needs to be noticed is that some Colorectal Cancer in early stage shows no clear symptoms, so patients fail to recognize hematochezia by themselves. So it is necessary to do the regular stool test. It is late to do the test when they have stomach ache, diabetes or see blood in stool. In addition, the patients of Colorectal Cancer become younger. According to some medical papers, young people with Colorectal Cancer have bad changes and cancer cells spread in a quicker speed. Sometimes, people think having difficulty in defecation as constipation and they do not choose to have a test. Thus it will leads irreparable loss.

Therefore, it is significant to do Fecal Occult Blood Rapid Test（FOB）to save patients’ life. It is known that the test is regarded as an important screening index in diagnosing digestive tract cancer. The accuracy of the stool test is the important reason. About 20 percent of patients having diagnose digestive tract cancer in early stage is positive in the test and over 90 percent of patients with advanced cancer are positive in the test.